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Recent Publications

Letson, D., C.E. Laciana, F.E. Bert, E.U. Weber, R.W. Katz, X.I. Gonzalez, and G.P. Podesta, 2009: "Value of perfect ENSO phase predictions for agriculture: evaluating the impact of land tenure and decision objectives." Climatic Change, 97, 145-170. [pdf file]

Furrer, E.M., and R.W. Katz, 2008: "Improving the simulation of extreme precipitation events by stochastic weather generators." Water Resources Research, 44, W12439, doi:10.1029/2008WR007316. [pdf file]

Zheng, X., and R.W. Katz, 2008: "Simulation of spatial dependence in daily rainfall using multisite generators." Water Resources Research, 44, W09403, doi:10.1029/2007WR006399. [pdf file]

Zheng, X., and R.W. Katz, 2008: "Mixture model of generalized chain-dependent processes and its application to simulation of interannual variability of daily rainfall." Journal of Hydrology, 349, 191-199. [pdf file]

Apipattanavis, S., G. Podesta, B. Rajagopalan, and R.W. Katz, 2007: "A semiparametric multivariate and multisite weather generator." Water Resources Research, 43, W11401, doi:10.1029/2006WR005714. [pdf file]

Harper, B.R., R.W. Katz, and R.C. Harriss, 2007: "Statistical methods for quantifying the effect of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation on wind power in the North Great Plains of the United States." Wind Engineering, 31, 123-137. [pdf file]

Furrer, E.M., and R.W. Katz, 2007: "Generalized linear modeling approach to stochastic weather generators." Climate Research, 34, 129-144. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., and M. Ehrendorfer, 2006: "Bayesian approach to decision making using ensemble weather forecasts." Weather and Forecasting, 21, 220-231. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., G.S. Brush, and M.B. Parlange, 2005: "Statistics of extremes: Modeling ecological disturbances." Ecology, 86, 1124-1134. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., M.B. Parlange, and C. Tebaldi, 2003: "Stochastic modeling of the effects of large-scale circulation on daily weather in the southeastern U.S." Climatic Change, 60, 189-216. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., M.B. Parlange, and P. Naveau, 2002: "Statistics of extremes in hydrology." Advances in Water Resources, 25, 1287-1304. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., 2002: "Stochastic modeling of hurricane damage." Journal of Applied Meteorology, 41, 754-762. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., 2002: "Sir Gilbert Walker and a connection between El Niño and statistics." Statistical Science, 17, 97-112. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., 2002: "Techniques for estimating uncertainty in climate change scenarios and impact studies." Climate Research, 20, 167-185. [pdf file]

Parlange, M.B., and R.W. Katz, 2000: "An extended version of the Richardson model for simulating daily weather variables." Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, 610-622. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., 1999: "Moments of power transformed time series." Environmetrics, 10, 301-307. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W. and X. Zheng, 1999: "Mixture model for overdispersion of precipitation." Journal of Climate, 12, 2528-2537. [pdf file]

Katz, R.W., 1999: "Extreme value theory for precipitation: Sensitivity analysis for climate change." Advances in Water Resources, 23, 133-139. [pdf file]